Clinical Sister / Charge NurseNHS
Job summary
As a Band 6 Clinical Sister, You are responsible for leading shifts, ensuring safe and effective patient care, supporting and developing staff, maintaining high clinical standards, and working with the multidisciplinary team to deliver excellent outcomes for older patients.
Interviews are expected to take place on 11th September 2026.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.
Main duties of the job
- Provide clinical leadership and coordinate the daily running of the ward.
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for patients with complex needs.
- Lead and manage staff during shifts, ensuring safe and effective patient care.
- Support the Ward Manager with workforce matters including staffing levels, sickness management, appraisals, and complaints.
- Promote patient safety, clinical governance, infection prevention, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Act as a mentor and support staff development, supervision, competency assessment, and appraisal processes.
- Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the multidisciplinary team to coordinate care and discharge planning.
- Maintain accurate patient records and utilise electronic systems effectively.
- Ensure compliance with Trust policies, health and safety requirements, and professional standards.
- Contribute to service development and continuous improvement within the ward and Trust.
Job description
The Band 6 Clinical Sister/Charge Nurse is a senior nurse and shift leader responsible for providing clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, and supporting the daily management of an 11 bedded unit alongside an Acute Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) service . The post holder leads and coordinates shifts, manages a team of nursing staff, undertakes complex clinical assessments, and supports the Ward Manager in maintaining patient safety, quality standards, and ward performance. Responsibilities include workforce management, staff supervision, appraisals, education and mentorship, clinical governance, infection prevention, discharge planning, multidisciplinary working, complaint management, and continuous service improvement. For further details please see the attached job description.
About us
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.